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Huawei has been selling its Honor-branded smartphones in the UK for a while now, but so far only through third-party retailers and only in SIM-free and unlocked fashion. That's about to change, though.
Three is going to become the exclusive...

Sony took the wraps off the Xperia M4 Aqua yesterday morning in Barcelona at MWC, and today the new phone is already up for pre-order, at least in Germany.
Right now Amazon is the only retailer doing the honors, and it's asking for €279 for the...

Samsung is considering using a dual-edge display on the next Samsung Galaxy Note phablet.
The Galaxy S6 edge received overwhelmingly positive reception both from critics and users. The new Galaxy S6 edge doesn't use the same bending as the Galaxy...

Just a couple of days after going official, the HTC One M9 is now available for pre-order by the official HTC store in Germany.
Currently, you can pre-order the Gold-on-Gold version now, while the Gunmetal Gray and the Gold-on-Silver color...

BlackBerry's MWC press conference ended merely minutes ago and for the most part, it was quite boring. However, Blackberry made a few interesting announcement near the end of the lengthy talk, including one major curveball, that no one had really...

The BlackBerry Classic is the epitome of the company's smartphone concept. The hardware keyboard, together with a no-nonsense design and security features is what keeps the company going.
BlackBerry has chosen to spice things up for its basic...

The BlackBerry Leap is now official, announced at the company's MWC 2015 press conference. Nevertheless, the latest member of the BlackBerry smartphone family is an budget-minded mid-range offering and sports a 5" HD display resulting in a pixel...

Google released the Android distribution report for the month of February. The latest Android 5.0 Lollipop has more than doubled its distribution share in a month - it now runs on 3.3% of all Android hardware (up from 1.6% last month).
The...

Sony made the Xperia Z4 Tablet official earlier today, and now the company's French arm has put it up for pre-order. This is helpful because it reveals the starting price for the tablet, which will be a pretty steep €559 in its Wi-Fi-only...

French smartphone maker Wiko has unveiled two new devices today, the Highway Star 4G and the Highway Pure 4G.
The Star 4G is almost a flaghsip offering for Wiko, considering the fact that its other handsets are much lower-end. It has an...

HTC is soon going to stop selling the One (M8), its flagship from last year. In its place the Taiwanese company will offer the One M8s, a device which will be almost identical to the one it's going to replace.
The one difference will be in the...

The Alcatel OneTouch Hero 2+ is a special version of the OneTouch Hero 2 running Cyanogen OS. The phone packs a 6" 1080p TFT display and has a built-in stylus, just like the original. Under the hood, there's a MediaTek MT6592 chipset with an 2.0GHz...

Vivo X5Max went official last December as the world's slimmest smartphone with amazingly thin 4.75mm profile. In this tiny shell Vivo managed to accommodate a 5.5" 1080p display, Snapdragon 615 chip with an octa-core processor, a 13MP rear snapper,...

Samsung Netherlands has begun accepting pre-orders for the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge, which revealed the official price in mainland Europe. Both versions will ship on April 10.
The flat-screened Galaxy S6, the 32GB model, is priced at...

Micromax has launched Canvas Fire 4 in India for $113 (Rs. 6,999). This fourth iteration of Canvas Fire series runs Android 5.0 Lollipop out of the box.
Canvas Fire 4 appears to be an iterative run-of-the-mill smartphone with dual front...

MediaTek announced the mid-range MT6753 chipset with WorldMode LTE. The 64-bit octa-core SoC is already is sampling to the company’s partners at the moment and will arrive on commercial devices in Q2, 2015.
The chipset features eight 64-bit...

The Galaxy S5 launched with Samsung's own camera sensor, however it seems that its successors have reverted back to Sony. The Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge pack a Sony IMX240 sensor, the 16MP unit we've seen on the Galaxy Note 4.
Samsung...

Today at the MWC 2015, Gionee unveiled the Elife S7, a phone with a complicated design that focuses on being thin and running cool, and boasts long battery life. It's not the thinnest yet, but at 5.5mm, it's impressive enough. It's among the...

With the development of Apple Pay and yesterday's announcement of Samsung Pay, it seems the industry is really pushing towards mobile payment systems. After all is does make a lot of sense to be able to pay with the device you are most likely to...

Silent Circle, the maker of the privacy-oriented Blackphone, has unveiled a successor. Logically named the Blackphone 2, the phone promises even tighter security and updated specs to better fit 2015 market. Additionally, there's also a new tablet...